Cook's ships had left the Cape on…

January 1773 CE

Cook's ships had left the Cape on November 22, 1772 and headed for the area of the South Atlantic where the French navigator Bouvet claimed to have spotted land that he named Cape Circumcision.

Shortly after leaving they experienced severe cold weather and early on November 23, 1772, the crew were issued with fearnaught jackets and trousers at the expense of the government.

By early December they were sailing in thick fog and seeing 'ice islands'.

Cook had not found the tiny island that Bouvet had discovered in 1739 and claimed to be in latitude 54°.

Pack ice soon surrounds the ships but in the second week in January, in the southern mid-summer, the weather abates and Cook is able to take the ships southwards through the ice to reach the Antarctic Circle on January 17.

The next day, being severely impeded by the ice, they change course and head away to the north-east.

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